Archaeologists Find 8-Million-Year-Old Forest in Hungary
QuestionGirl August 11th, 2007 - 4:53 pmArchaeologists have found an 8-million-year old forest of cypresses, well preserved and not fossilized, in Bukkabrany in northeastern Hungary.
“The discovery is exceptional as the trees kept their wooden structure, they neither turned into coal nor were petrified,” Tamas Pusztai, the deputy director and head of the archaeological department at the local Otto Herman museum, who oversaw the excavation, said.
Archaeologists announced the find last week after uncovering the mysterious forest of taxodiums, a kind of swamp cypress, after a few days of digging.
Miners working in a brown coal mine had first uncovered several tree trunks that had been turned into coal, a common occurrence in this kind of environment.
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